{"id":330268,"date":"2021-08-25T21:19:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hands-on-experience-as-pianists-learn-to-play-with-robot-thumb\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:19:33","slug":"hands-on-experience-as-pianists-learn-to-play-with-robot-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hands-on-experience-as-pianists-learn-to-play-with-robot-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hands-on experience as pianists learn to play with robot thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Hands-on experience as pianists learn to play with robot thumb<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>LONDON, Aug 25 \u2013 How would pianists cope with suddenly having two thumbs on one hand? Would their brains become scrambled or would the extra digit add a new dimension to their playing?<\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientist Adlo Faisal and the team he heads at Imperial College London developed a robot thumb to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Within an hour of being fitted with the artificial digit next to the little finger of their right hand, six players had learned to integrate it on the keyboard, steered by electrical signals generated when they move their foot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt came out of my own passion for piano that I wondered what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens if I have an extra finger?\u201d Faisal, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Neuro<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> at the college\u2019s Department of Bioengineering and Department of Computing, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a dedicated area of your brain responsible for every single finger,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/robotic-thumb-13.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The robotic thumb is electrical signals generated when the musician moves their foot.\" class=\"wp-image-19243285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/robotic-thumb-13.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/robotic-thumb-13.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/robotic-thumb-13.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo now comes the question, if I give you an eleventh finger, \u2026 are you processing it the same way as you\u2019re processing a regular limb?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Brain &amp; Behaviour Lab that Faisal heads found that, regardless of playing ability, the six pianists and six other non-playing volunteers all adapted to the thumb quickly, suggesting we are not limited to using an extra digit for tasks we are familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that you can actually play with eleven fingers is not entirely trivial and that has to do with how your brain is actually wired up\u2026,\u201d Faisal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what we can say is it\u2019s a proof of existence. 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Would their brains become scrambled or would the extra digit add a new dimension to their playing? 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